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The Aureum Palace is really the only hotel in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar. As we’ve remarked elsewhere, all hotels within this Burmese-owned chain are idiosyncratic in style. But at least you know what you are going to get: generally reliable service, clean rooms and broadly decent food.
There is a sense of a model village here, with neatly laid out bungalows, lawns, the occasional ornamental horse carriage and tarmac roads. Although the complex is manageable in size, golf buggies are available to ferry guests around. We can’t quite understand why as walking, out of the traffic, in the wonderfully fresh hillside air is a delight.
Come armed with a good book or two. The TVs in the rooms have local channels only and the internet is slow enough to make you cry.
It’s a fair walk into the centre. However, with the Governor’s Residence just behind the hotel, there are some lovely walks around its grounds.
